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Dude! Get a grip on yourself!

First of all where in the hell did you ever read that Erik was a real person? I hate to break it to you, but the character is fiction.

However, I will go as far to say this...

The novel was based on "some" actual events. And those events are these:

1. The chandelier actually did fall on an audience member who went to the opera for the first time. Actually it was the counterweight of the chandelier.

2. There really was a Christine Daae, but no Erik. It is believed by many that the inspiration for the character of Christine Daae was a Swedish Opera singer from that time, named Christine Nilsson, who has the exact background as the Daae character. She sang in "Faust" at the Paris Opera house.

3. There really is (or was) a lake underneath the Paris Opera house. There were many rooms below.

4. There was actually a chorus girl (around the time the story is supposed to take place) named Carlotta. BUt in the novel, she has been changed to the Oepra's diva.

5. Some say that Gaston Leroux, till the day he died, maintained that the story actually took place and that he changed some of the names of the characters (for protection or something). However, the validity of this was never proven. No one knows if he was pulling our chain. But certainly there is no proof that Erik ever existed. To this day he is a fictional character. One would like to think so, but the facts are that Gaston Leroux was writing fiction, that's what writers do.

6. A mysterious contractor was hired by Charles Garnier to finish the foundations of the Opera House. No records of this employee were ever found. However, one cannot assume that it is concrete evidence that Erik ever existed.

I think Gaston Leroux was just pulling your chain dude, and he got the best of you.

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